The Kapfenberg Herald
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Age has not caught Thomas Pledl yet — 8.39
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.39 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Kapfenberg
Richard Strebinger was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Martin Moormann falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Austria Wien tell Kapfenberg: Daniel Sumbu is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Kapfenberg lose Stefan Baumgartner
42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match7 Aug 2027
Late, late show earns Kapfenberg a point
Minute 87, against FAC Wien, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Market9 Aug 2027
Maximilian Hofer told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Maximilian Hofer has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Kapfenberg.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Maximilian Hofer gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Erkin Yalcin was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Romeo Vučić is in the works
- Match Thomas Pledl rescues a point for Kapfenberg
- The dugout The manager’s verdict